“Owen, 7, does not have the strength to maneuver a computer mouse, but when a nurse propped her boyfriend’s iPad within reach in June, he did something his mother had never seen before,” Hager reports. “He aimed his left pointer finger at an icon on the screen, touched it — just barely — and opened the application Gravitarium, which plays music as users create landscapes of stars on the screen.”
Hager reports, “Over the years, Owen’s parents had tried several computerized communications contraptions to give him an escape from his disability, but the iPad was the first that worked on the first try. ‘We have spent all this time keeping him alive, and now we owe him more than that,’ said his mother, Ellen Goldstein, a vice president at the Times Square Alliance business association.”
“When Owen was about 8 weeks old, his mother noticed his right arm drooping. It led to a crushing diagnosis: the motor-neuron disease known as spinal muscular atrophy Type 1. A 2003 New York Times article about spinal muscular atrophy said his parents had been told Owen would be ‘paralyzed for his life, which doctors predicted would last no more than about two years,'” Hager reports. “Owen will turn 8 on Nov. 11. While his condition is not expected to worsen, he is extremely sensitive to infection and once nearly died of pneumonia; three specialized therapists and a nurse help keep him alive.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Joe J.” and “Lynn W.” for the heads up.]
Wow, Aunt Julia
Your lack of compassion shocks the conscious, regardless of views on abortion. Some day when you’re afflicted by a disease or are in a debilitating accident, perhaps your family will choose to be “less selfish” and let you go. I hope you’ve asked them to, for the sake of humanity.
I truly pity you.
Don’t feed the trolls. (Come on – “slurp” ?)
Don’t feed the trolls. (Come on – “slurp” ?)
What’s the difference?,
Now in my early 30’s, I’ve become pro-life over time.
Logic tells me that it’s not a right to “choose” murder just because the baby is still in the womb.
The Consequences of Roe v. Wade:
49,551,703 total abortions since 1973
http://www.nrlc.org/abortion/facts/abortionstats.html
That is simply disgusting and wrong.
What’s the difference?,
Now in my early 30’s, I’ve become pro-life over time.
Logic tells me that it’s not a right to “choose” murder just because the baby is still in the womb.
The Consequences of Roe v. Wade:
49,551,703 total abortions since 1973
http://www.nrlc.org/abortion/facts/abortionstats.html
That is simply disgusting and wrong.
The old election analysis that ‘It’s the economy stupid’ seems to have been replace by ‘It’s the stoopid, stupid’
The old election analysis that ‘It’s the economy stupid’ seems to have been replace by ‘It’s the stoopid, stupid’
Check out the video on NYT. Dry eyes are not possible.
Check out the video on NYT. Dry eyes are not possible.
Listen, if you’re going to force me –unconstitutionally, by the way — to buy into Obamacare, then I still have a right to free speech (until they take that away, too):
I’m already sick and tired of paying for extreme means of keeping people alive who normally wouldn’t be.
Where is the line? How much do we have to pay? Who decides? I say bring on the death panels before we go totally broke!
And, don’t tell me I can “keep my plan if I like it.” More Obama bullshit. My employer has already dropped insurance coverage altogether due to unworkable rising costs as a result of the Obamacare fiasco.
My excellent doctor has simply retired rather than continue to operate in such conditions.
Get ready for unnecessary waiting and pain and death.
Listen, if you’re going to force me –unconstitutionally, by the way — to buy into Obamacare, then I still have a right to free speech (until they take that away, too):
I’m already sick and tired of paying for extreme means of keeping people alive who normally wouldn’t be.
Where is the line? How much do we have to pay? Who decides? I say bring on the death panels before we go totally broke!
And, don’t tell me I can “keep my plan if I like it.” More Obama bullshit. My employer has already dropped insurance coverage altogether due to unworkable rising costs as a result of the Obamacare fiasco.
My excellent doctor has simply retired rather than continue to operate in such conditions.
Get ready for unnecessary waiting and pain and death.
The solution to your problem is very simple: November 2, 2010. Get out and vote.
The solution to your problem is very simple: November 2, 2010. Get out and vote.
Aunt julia– take your tea tampon and stick it eternally your hemorrhaging brain
Aunt julia– take your tea tampon and stick it eternally your hemorrhaging brain
Aunt Julia,
That forced payment will never make it past the U.S. Supreme Court. The fscking interstate commerce clause it not infinitely applicable to whatever socialist bullshit idiots like Obama dream up.
Aunt Julia,
That forced payment will never make it past the U.S. Supreme Court. The fscking interstate commerce clause it not infinitely applicable to whatever socialist bullshit idiots like Obama dream up.
Aunt Julia, can it or take it elsewhere. This forum isn’t for your weak political rhetoric.
Don’t focus on the family, focus on the device. This child was considered normal until after birth. The iPad helps him.
Autism is frquently not noticed until the third year. Ipad’s have been proven to help the autistic find a voice.
Disabled people of all ages can benefit from this seemingly simple device.
Let’s focus on the positives of the iPad, shall we?
Aunt Julia, can it or take it elsewhere. This forum isn’t for your weak political rhetoric.
Don’t focus on the family, focus on the device. This child was considered normal until after birth. The iPad helps him.
Autism is frquently not noticed until the third year. Ipad’s have been proven to help the autistic find a voice.
Disabled people of all ages can benefit from this seemingly simple device.
Let’s focus on the positives of the iPad, shall we?
Rather than get slurped into obtuse political baiting, I’m going to take this opportunity to remind you all that it’s now November, and we should shortly be expecting iOS 4.2 to bring 3rd party multitasking, folders, and other goodies to our iPads. Whatever your feelings on the sanctity of life, I think we can all agree to be Pro-4.2.
Rather than get slurped into obtuse political baiting, I’m going to take this opportunity to remind you all that it’s now November, and we should shortly be expecting iOS 4.2 to bring 3rd party multitasking, folders, and other goodies to our iPads. Whatever your feelings on the sanctity of life, I think we can all agree to be Pro-4.2.
Human embryo, oyster – either one is slurptastically delicious!
Human embryo, oyster – either one is slurptastically delicious!
And I keep remembering how Bill Gates & Ballmer kept saying people really needed keyboards and that iPads wouldn’t really be a good solution…
And I keep remembering how Bill Gates & Ballmer kept saying people really needed keyboards and that iPads wouldn’t really be a good solution…